First Impressions - Share Your Dreams of the City

I've been dreaming of this place since I was a teenager (I'm 28 now). The sea is what I remember most - it's not like any ocean I've seen. Sometimes it feels alive, watching.

The central plaza is familiar. Giant buildings, robed figures. But I've also explored further out - there's a district near the water with narrow streets, market stalls. The goods are strange. Glowing things. Objects that seem to shift when you look away.

I found you through the DreamViews thread. I've been having these dreams for about three years now.

What strikes me most is the consistency. Not just "white city by the sea" but specific details that persist across visits. There's a fountain in the central plaza with water that flows in spirals. The same fountain, every time. That's not how my other dreams work.

I've been keeping detailed records. I'm trained in anthropology so I've been approaching this like fieldwork - trying to understand not just the geography but the culture. The robed figures seem to have hierarchies. There are rituals I don't understand.

Is anyone else trying to talk to the inhabitants?

I've tried. They usually ignore me, like I'm not quite real to them. But sometimes they respond - usually with confusion, like I'm asking questions that don't make sense.

Anastasia has a theory that we're not fully "there" when we visit - we're seeing it but not fully participating. That's why we can't affect things or be noticed consistently.

Charlotte, your fieldwork approach is exactly what we need. Would you be interested in leading a more systematic ethnographic study? We could design surveys, collect standardized reports from multiple dreamers.

I'd love that. Let me think about methodology and I'll start a new thread.

New member here. I've been lurking since the beginning but didn't want to post until I was sure.

I've seen the statue. In my dreams, it's in a small square near what feels like a temple. There are people who come to it - they leave offerings, small objects I can't identify. It feels sacred, important.

I've also seen the library-cathedral. But in my dreams, the writing on the walls moves. Not like it's alive, more like it's... unsettled. Waiting to be read.

Found this through Noel. We work together sometimes.

I've been having these dreams for about six months. What got me was the consistency - I kept returning to the same places, which never happens in my normal dreams. I started documenting and realized I was building a mental map.

The central district is clear. But outside it, things get fuzzy. I can never quite remember how I got from the center to the outer areas. Is that true for others?

Definitely true for me. The center is stable, the periphery is dreamlike in the more normal sense - shifting, inconsistent. That's something we should track.